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What You Need to Know

• List characteristics common to all forms of life.

• List the levels of biological organization from simple to complex, with an example structure found at each level.

• List the location and charge of electron, proton and neutron in the atom. 

• List the four most common types of biological molecules.

• Define organelle, cell, tissue, organ, and organism.

• Compare population with community with ecosystem.

• Define and give an example of an emergent property.

• List and provide evidence for the three main parts to the cell theory.

• List and describe the four shared characteristics of all cells.

• Define and give examples of unicellular and multicellular organisms.

• Compare and contrast prokaryotic cells with eukaryotic cells.

• Explain how the cells in multicellular organisms become specialized.

• Contrast sexual with asexual reproduction and give an example organism for each.

• Compare growth with development.

• Outline the role of the sun, producers, consumers, saprotrophs and detritivores in energy flow though the ecosystem.

• Contrast autotroph with heterotroph.  

• Define homeostasis and metabolism and give an example of each.

• Compare “response to environment” with “adaptation to environment” giving an example of each.

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